Fair Isle Cardigans post Christmas?

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I love this jumper, but would it be odd to wear this after Christmas?

https://www.next.co.uk/style/su856486/y08857

I think Fair Isle can be Christmas jumper lite but only if it is actually Christmas or it's very red and green

shooting season, sorry

Oh no FairIsle is for winter yes, but nothing to do with Christmas.

Fair isle is fine all winter and some of autumn spring. Sparkly can also be fine for a night out or special occasion. I have only one jumper that's a bit more Christmas than above. It is a bit like a fair isle in design but has a kind of festive patternation to it.

There's an island called Fair Isle in the Shetlands where they wear this style of jumper literally year round. Not Christmassy at all.

I’m in Scotland, buy and make fairisle knitwear and I wear it all year round.

Its not associated with Christmas in most people’s minds. Your friend must just not be familiar with fairisle knitwear.

If you want wool in the style you linked have a look at Toast, Bosie, Harley of Scotland, Barbour, Boden, Eribe, Brora, House of Bruar, The Croft House, Campbell’s of Beauly and Dicks of Edinburgh.

None of them are cheap but pure wool fairisle is not cheap.

Fair Isle is nothing to do with Christmas. It's a stranded knitting style originating on an island called Fair Isle. I wear mine all the year round - I have a short sleeved one for warmer weather.

Agree. Love the design, but 40% plastic. Probably 50% plastic given that 10% are "mixed fibres". And £120.

I have a seasalt fair isle jumper which is 80% wool which was about £65 in the black friday sales, there are plenty of other brands which produce wool or cotton items less than £120, or at least which are 75% plus natural fibres.

I agree. I actually think of Fair Isle being usually more in autumnal colours really.

I think some people think of the similar Norwegian style as Fair Isle, and it does have similarities, but is more often in bright reds and other Christmassy colours, and people associate them with snow, Christmas trees etc.

It's not very wintery, you could probably wear that most of the year except summer

My Harley of Scotland Fair Isle cardigan is very soft and warm so I wear it whenever it's cold.

It's a pity that style is considered just for Christmas but mine and many others are more muted and wouldn't look Christmassy anyway.

Harley of Scotland have gorgeous 100% wool Jumpers in beautiful colours with authentic Fair Isle patterns.

Mine is 5 years old and looks new.

I've seen some takes on Fair Isle styles that have glitter or sparkly beads incorporated into the design - they seem festive to me, but just standard Fair Isle isn't Christmassy at all.

Try Chinti & Parker - they have some Fair Isles in their sale at the moment. All cashmere/wool mix.

That’s not Christmassy at all

That’s absolutely gorgeous! And yes, January and February are also cold months so it’s fine!

Another suggestion for 100% wool fairisle knitwear: https://www.eribe.com/collections/eribe-cardigan-collection?page=1

I lived in Norway for a while as a kid and these patterns are worn all winter... it's fine, the boden one is lovely!

I bought a Harley fair isle cardigan in March in Scotland. It was cold! Beautiful knitwear and pure wool.

Fair Isle and Christmas Island are different places.

Fair Isle knitwear should really have DOC status, unless it's made in Fair Isle, Shetland or (possibly) Orkney it is at best 'fairisle style'.

I’ve got fair isle-y stuff I technically wear all winter but I will say the winters are so mild these days that they rarely come out

I don't see it as Christmassy. I've got a red and blue Fair Isle jumper myself, and I've been known to wear it to "Christmas jumper" events because I'm not willing to buy a special jumper I don't even like and will only wear once a year, but I wear it all through the winter anyway. Red, white and gold with a bit of sparkle would say Christmas to me. Red and blue doesn't particularly.

I think that we can safely state that the wearing of Fair Isle or similar jumpers pre dated the modern fad of Christmas jumpers by a long time, possibly even centuries.

Actually, although Fair Isle knitting goes back a long way it only became popular outside Scotland in the 1920s when the Prince of Wales was photographed in one so only 60 years before Christmas jumpers.

Interestingly Christmas jumpers are apparently one of the worst examples of fast fashion, with 95% of them being made of plastic and 40% of them being worn once. Even more reason to wear a wool Fair Isle jumper all year round like they do in Fair Isle.

The Prince of Wales in his Fair Isle jumper.